September 11'th…always a sombre day. Once you've
had a few moments to pause and reflect, maybe it's time for a little
distraction. Kate Morgan has dropped by to chat about her new book.
SC: Thanks for joining us today, Kate. BTW, we love your cover. Tell us a little bit
about your main character of this book.
KM: Denis
Kaine is an exorcist and a priest, even though he hasn’t set foot in a church
since a much higher-ranking priest insulted Denis and his deceased twin brother
and Denis cold-cocked him. Now Denis is scraping by with a part-time job at a
bookstore and a few exorcisms on the side. He’s drowning in guilt over his
brother’s death, which is his sole focus until a smartass 1200-year-old
shapeshifter barges in on him. She’s hungry, she’s sexy, and she decides to run
his life to thank him for freeing her from imprisonment in an ancient tomb.
Denis is skilled and confident in must about everything—except women. Poor
Denis. He has no chance.
SC:
No chance at all. Exorcisms dealve into the paranormal. Do you believe in the
paranormal and if so, do you have an experience you can share?
KM:
I do believe in the paranormal. Alas, I’ve never encountered a ghost myself. I
know several people who have, so I figure my turn is soon!
SC:
The more open you are, the better chance you have of experiencing the
paranormal. But you're pretty busy these days. What titles are you working on
now that you can tell us about?
KM:
Under my real name, Alice Loweecey, my newest ex-nun private eye mystery hits
stores next May: Better than Nun. These are light, funny murder mysteries.
What? Murder can be funny too! I’m continually surprised by cozy mystery fans
who literally take a step back from me when I mention I have a supernatural
thriller coming out. Muahahahaha!
SC:
Fabulous! Thanks for stopping by today. Let's take a look at your book now.
Genre: Supernatural Thriller
Publisher: Omnium Gatherum Books
Date of Publication: Sept. 10, 2018
ISBN: 9781949054019;
ISBN: 1949054012
Number of pages: 285
Word Count: 80,000
Cover Artist: Kate Jonez
Tagline: Kicking ass and eating ramen: An exorcist’s life ain’t like the movies.
Book Description:
Ex-priest Denis Kaine's surviving on ramen and kicking otherworldly creatures off this planet. It's all noise to fill his chasm of hate and guilt inside from letting his twin brother blow his brains out because he’d been possessed. Denis should’ve known. He should’ve seen. He should’ve… everything.
His survival techniques are no match for Emma Koroleva, the 1200-year-old entity he freed from imprisonment in Rome. She's powerful, she's got major attitude, and she hates ramen.
She changes into various poltergeists and forces Denis to "exorcise" her. Denis gets paid, they eat real food, and she toys with seducing him. Denis starts to think he's living in the sitcom from hell until he learns his dead brother's become the plaything of something big, strong, and evil. Screw sitcoms. Denis is about to prove why his rep is legendary in the spirit world.
Excerpt:
Someone knocked
at the door.
On a Sunday
afternoon? If it was a Girl Scout, she’d be disappointed. My entire liquid
income consisted of the twelve dollars and three quarters in my wallet. I
pulled off the Roman collar, so she wouldn’t get a bad impression of priests in
general and unbolted the door.
It crashed open
with a blue-green-flowery gust of wind. I spun around and slammed it shut. My
messenger bag stood ready within arm’s reach on the kitchen table. All I had to
do—
“It is ridiculously
cold outside. Where is your fireplace?”
A black-haired
woman as tall as—no, taller than me by an inch or two—strode into my living
room and back again.
“Bah. Are you a
herder of reindeer that you can stomach this cold without a fire? I am not. I
require heat and coffee and food.”
Her flowered
dress looked more suited to August than late March. Her windblown hair reached
below her waist, the fluorescent light striking midnight-blue highlights from
it. The colors of her energy reminded me of something, but I couldn’t place it.
“Look, whoever
you are, I didn’t invite you here.” I opened the door, which put me even nearer
to my messenger bag. “Out.”
She laughed.
One beat: I
flipped open the front of the messenger bag. Two beats: I snatched the squeeze
bottle I kept holy water in. On the third beat I popped the nozzle and squirted
the perpendicular strokes of a cross at her.
“Merda.” She
shivered and vanished.
Whatever she
was, she moved faster than most entities. As I repacked the holy water, it hit
me that she’d said “shit” in Italian not like she was angry. More like she was
annoyed because I’d gotten her dress wet.
About the Author:
Baker of brownies and tormenter of characters, Kate Morgan celebrates the the day she jumped the wall with as much enthusiasm as her birthday. She grew up watching Hammer horror films and Scooby-Doo mysteries, which explains a whole lot.
When she takes a break from inspiring nightmares, she writes ex-nun PI mysteries under her real name, Alice Loweecey. In her spare time she can be found growing vegetables in her garden and water lilies in her koi pond.
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Website: www.aliceloweecey.net
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/GiuliaDriscoll/
(It’s confusing, I know. Facebook wouldn’t let me create an author page under my own name, so I had to use my MC’s name. Branding. It’s so much fun.)
Twitter: https://twitter.com/KateMorganBooks
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